What's your favorite painting and why? Mine is called the Tulip Folly by Jean-Leon Gerome. I was wandering through the Walters Art Gallery and this painting of a swordsman defending him a flower caught my eye. The description read that the painting was set at a time when tulip speculation had created a large bubble. To stave off a market collapse the government tried to reduce the supply by destroying the tulips. This painting shows the madness of their policy. Ironically it's a policy the French government supports to this day in other areas. More on the actual events here Image Unavailable, Please Login
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Brueghel_the_Elder http://www.huntfor.com/absoluteig/bruegel.htm http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/bruegel/ Pieter Bruegel does it for me....Such realism in sur realism... A Dali before Dali
Another Master....Beyond! http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Knight-Death-and-Devil-Posters_i1612792_.htm http://www.allposters.com/-st/Albrecht-Duerer-Posters_c24064_.htm Image Unavailable, Please Login
Mine has always been one particular painting from Matisse the Blue nude I was an avid painter in my younger days and most of my work is two tone or at most three, I feel volumes of emotions can be created by little subtleties in the texture and shade of the particular paint or charcoal and it can practically scream at you when done in bold like The Blue Nude. Image Unavailable, Please Login
This is a hard one..... but I've chosen Assumption of the Virgin by Titian. It's a really powerful work of art and its setting and scale is just amazing. It took my breath away when I stood in front of it. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Does an etching count? I almost bought this, it moved me so much, and I'm not religious at all. The Beheading of John the Baptist. Rembrandt,1640 Image Unavailable, Please Login
Going to Europe and spending hours in the Louvre, Versaille and the British Museum was amazing. I had not been a huge art guy before it, but it amazed me what could be done so long ago, and just how amazingly realistic they could paint. Oh, and chicks were kind of hot in the middle ages
I like Edward Hopper's paintings a lot, especially his most famous one called Nighthawks. Image Unavailable, Please Login
By far my favoirte painter is Frenchman Adolphe-William Bougeureau, died in 1925. I prefer realism, I prefer lighter subjects, and frankly I enjoy paintings that portray women as beautiful forms. I have hand painted reproductions of all of these and more. Most people would recognize his painting mistakenly called "First Kiss" (top). Personally it is a tie for me between (in order) Evening Mood, L'Aurore, and Nymphaenum: Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Kandinsky. Expression of his emotions perceptions led to the development of an abstract style of painting based on the non-representational properties of color and form. "Composition VII" Image Unavailable, Please Login
I used to have prints of these two paintings in my bedroom. ...I let my ex keep them, since the brunette in both paintings resembled her. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Bernie, I gotta admit, I liked his naked adult women portraits much more. I like them for their artistic value........................;} I just love nymphs. I mean Nyphaenum.
I recently saw a couple of Chuck Close originals at the Met, and they are stunning in person. He's not my favorite artist but I found myself starring at his paintings for the better part of an hour. He paints faces on a very large canvas and to scale, so any marks/scars/features are magnified. His more recent pieces were painted with a paintbrush, in his mouth, after he lost the ability to use his hands or feet Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
ultra realiste paint, i heard this week one art work have been sold 1.7M in Spain. it seem this category of Art work ultra detailled start to be expensive.
I admire the works of the old masters. Amazing skills, and that they survived the centuries. I also enjoy animation art. There's this famous painting 'Nude Descending a Staircase'. Although I'm not a big Simpsons fan, I saw this in a gallery several years ago and it still cracks me up! 'Homer Descending a Staircase' http://www.alexross.com/SGC01.html
I like the painting of homer, enjoy the classic with a twist. Found one named "le gogh". Also I have a thing for western art, and C.M. Russel in particular. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
